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Professor David Fitzpatrick BA, PhD, MRIA

Trinity College, Dublin

David Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin and Honorary Professor, RIISS.

He is one of Ireland's most distinguished historians with exemplary and acclaimed publications on emigration, the Great Famine, local politics, labour history, education, women's history, Australian history and much else. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is currently researching the Orange Order in its international context.

When appointed to RIISS, David Fitzpatrick was described by one eminent referee as 'simply the best historian at work in Ireland today in the fields of nineteenth and twentieth century social and political history'. His study of Irish emigration to Australia, Oceans of Consolation, is widely regarded as a classic of its type.

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